Queer Game Narrative in Queers in love at the End of the World

Queers in love at the End of the World is a hypertext game in which the player has ten seconds to interact with their partner before the game ends. With a timer counting down, it opens with “In the end, like you always said, it’s just the two of you together. You have ten seconds, but there’s so much you want to do: kiss her, hold her, take her hand, tell her.”, where the player can proceed in any number of directions through the bold hyperlink options. There is little time to savor the tender moments between the two queer lovers (by design) and Anthropy has described this Twine experiment as a way of capturing “the transformative, transcendent power of queer love.”